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Re: Contour Plot Error [message #91181 is a reply to message #91180]

Thu, 11 June 2015 16:43

joseph.george
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Registered: June 2015

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On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 7:27:56 PM UTC-4, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 5:26:43 PM UTC-6, joseph...@richmond.edu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently using IDL 8.3 for a summer research project at my university. I am trying to use the "contour" plotting function, which has worked before in the past perfectly. Recently, however, whenever I attempt to create a contour plot using the correct syntax that has worked before, IDL gives me the following error:
>>
>> % CONTOUR: Error opening file. File: C:\Program Files\IDL\IDL82\resource\fonts\hersh1.chr
>> The system cannot find the path specified.
>> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>>
>> I am not quite sure what to make of this, as I do not even have an IDL82 folder in my computer and opening a file has nothing to do with the contour plot I am trying to create. Any suggestions or advice you can offer?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>
> Check your environment variables to see if you have a rogue IDL_DIR or IDL_PATH set somewhere.
> -C

Thanks Chris, that was it! For some reason, the !DIR is set to an IDL82 path every time I open the software up despite me having version 8.3. I suppose I will have to manually specify !DIR every time I go in.

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		Contour Plot Error By: joseph.george on Thu, 11 June 2015 16:26
		Re: Contour Plot Error By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 11 June 2015 16:27
		Re: Contour Plot Error By: joseph.george on Thu, 11 June 2015 16:43
		Re: Contour Plot Error By: David Fanning on Thu, 11 June 2015 17:10

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